Kabak
Prof. Dr. Barış KABAK

Professor of English Linguistics
Office Phone and Email
Room: 5 U 12
Phone: +49 931 31-86519
Fax: +49 931 31-85660
Email: baris.kabak@uni-wuerzburg.de
Office hours during the semester break 2021
I am offering virtual office hours via Zoom on the following days and times during the semester break: For each
scheduled office hour, there will be 15-minute slots available that you need to sign up for at least 24 hours in
advance:
03.02.2021: 12:30-13:30
10.02.2021: 12:00-13:30
26.02.2021: 12:00-13:30 ("Seminar" students)
26.02.2021: 14:00-15:00 ("Thesis" students)
02.03.2021: 12:00-13:30
03.03.2021: 12:00-13:30
24.03.2021: 12:00-13:00
(During Summer Semester 2021: Please email me to make an appointment at least one week in advance)
In order to sign up for a slot, please access the classroom "Virtual Office Hours - Prof. Baris Kabak" on WueCampus via
the following link and follow the instructions given there. You can sign up for the classroom manually using the
password "Kabak".
https://wuecampus2.uni-wuerzburg.de/moodle/course/view.php?id=39705.
Password (if required): Kabak
Secretary: Karin Kernahan
Phone: +49 931 31-81125 / -86587
Research Interests
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Phonology and Phonetics:
Prosodic Phonology, Phonetics-Phonology Interface, Morphology-Phonology Interface,
Syntax-Phonology Interface, Laboratory Phonology, Second Language Phonetics and Phonology, Speech Perception, Music-Prosody Interface, Prosodic Typology, Phonological Change and Variation
Morphology and Syntax:
Morphophonology and Prosodic Morphology, Agglutination, Cliticization and Morphologization, Word Formation (especially, Compounding and Reduplication), Morphology-Syntax Interface, Suspended Affixation, Bilingual Morphosyntax, Word Class Distinctions in Phonology, Syntax-Phonology Mapping, Word Segmentation
Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Bilingualism:
Psycholinguistic Aspects of SLA and Bilingualism, Second Language Phonology, Bilingual Grammatical Competence, Ultimate Attainment and Near Nativeness, Foreign Accent, Third Language Acquisition of Phonology, Cognitive Aspects of Multilingualism
English Linguistics:
English Phonetics, Phonology and Prosody, English Morphology and Word Formation (especially, Compounding and Blending), Non-native Varieties of English, Sociophonetics of English Varieties, American English Varieties with focus on their Phonology, Prosody and Morphology, Phonology and Prosody of Emerging Englishes, English as a Foreign Language
Other Languages:
Turkish Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology
Korean Phonology
Optionality in Bilingual Grammars (funded by Forschungsfonds der Philosophischen Fakultät I, University of Würzburg, 2014-2015).
Nature and Dynamics of Prosodic Exceptions: Experimental and Cross-linguistic Insights (through the Young Scholar Fund in the framework of the Excellence Initiative, University of Konstanz, 2010-2011). Ph.D. Student: Yulia Lavitskaya
Phonological Patterns and Subregularities in the Lexicon (within SFB 471 ‘Variation and Evolution in the Lexicon’ funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), University of Konstanz, 2006-2008).
Acoustic, phonetic and phonological factors in non-native sound perception (AFF, University of Konstanz, 2008-2009)
L2 Perception of German and English Sound Strings (AFF, University of Konstanz, 2007).
L2 Acquisition of English Fricatives and Voicing (AFF, University of Konstanz, 2006)
I am currently vice president for Internationalization, Public and Alumni Relations at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and a professor of English Linguistics in the Institute of Modern Languages. Before coming to Würzburg, I worked as an assistant professor (Juniorprofessor) of English and General Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz (2005-2011). In Summer 2010, I became a Senior Associate Member of St. Antony’s College, which allowed me to have a research stay at the University of Oxford. During my assistant professorship, I substituted for the professorship of English Linguistics (2009-2010) and the professorship of Psycho-/ Neurolinguistics (2008-2009) at Konstanz.
Before I got on the professorial track, I worked as a postdoctoral research fellow within the Special Research Unit 471 ‘Variation and Evolution in the Lexicon’ funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Prior to that, I taught various linguistics courses at the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, at the University of Delaware in the United States of America, where I was a graduate student (1998-2003), and a Competitive Fellow. I did my undergraduate studies in English Language Teaching and Linguistics at Boğaziçi (Bosphorus) University, Istanbul, Turkey, and at the State University of New York at Binghamton, New York, USA. I am a native of Istanbul.
Courses Summer Semester 2019
Phonological Structure of English Words | Wednesdays 10-12 | HS 4 |
Second Language Acquisition | Wednesdays 16-18 | ÜR 16 |
Recently organized workshops
International Workshop on Suprasegmentals in Acquisition and Processing 31 May-01 June 2011, University of Konstanz (with Bettina Braun).
Phonology Workshop: Phonological Domains, Universals and Deviations (29th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS), Siegen, with Janet Grijzenhout).
Discovering and Representing Phonological Patterns 10-12 April 2008, University of Konstanz.